LINKBLOG for February 12, 2009
Feb 12th, 2009 by AZuidhof
Why You Should Always Validate Your Input – Jim Holmes
‘ Malicious folks are out there. They want to hurt your software ‘
Once again, a strong warningLearning To Code with the Azure SDK – Show Me The Code – Steve Smith
How to lose traction on a personal software project – Richard Dingwall
‘ So you’ve started writing your first program — great stuff! Here are a few tips and traps to watch out for along the way ‘More LINQ Optimizations – K. Scott Allen
How slow build time hurts code quality – Tim Stall
Help! Drowning in Expression Trees, What Now? – Bart de Smet
The power of an algorithm – Seth Godin
Balsamiq – great GUI mockup tool – Igor Moochnick
Thoughts on the Future of Desktop Clients for Line of Business Applications – Jeremy Jarrell
Value type comparison pitfall with == vs Equals – Jason Young
Do you wanna be the Picasso of programming? First learn the rules, and only after break them – Simone Chiaretta
‘ IMHO SOLID principles are good, and that must be in everybody’s toolbox. It’s no point in reinventing the wheel every time. But also pay attention to no overuse them, and apply them with grain of salt. But first… LEARN THE BASICS ‘14 Applications for Project Management and Collaboration – Kumail.H.T
DDD: There Is No Database – Casey Charlton
Today I’ve Realized How Far We Have To Go – Justin Etheredge
‘ I have never been so reminded of how immature our industry is than at this point. And I’m not talking about the individual people ‘
Justin hits the nail on the head. On the other hand, it is actually a fact that our industry is not grown up yet. With our without commenters showing their ignoranceThe 1234567890 Day – Abhijit Nadgouda
Laws, Rules, Principles, Patterns, and Practices – Chad Myers
Chad takes the trouble to look up the meaning of all of them in the dictionarySOLID Development Principles – In Motivational Pictures – Derick Bailey
If it’s not in the System, it doesn’t exist – Test Early Blog
‘ (…) if all of the assets necessary to create working software haven’t been committed to the version-control repository, the software doesn’t exist ‘Patterns, Purists, and Sinkholes – Rob Conery
Rob is giving his opinion on the stir that is keeping the .NET blogosphere busy this week, trying to capture what Jeff *actually* was trying to say
‘ LEARN THESE RULES FIRST AND USE THEM! Then you can decide if they don’t fit what you’re doing! ‘
Which is not too bad, on the face of it

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